This year Mrs. Leslie Walker’s ninth-grade choir class, the Mastersingers, came up with a creative way to make the students in choir feel welcome. On the choir students' birthday the Master Singers go and decorate their locker. “We thought it would be a great way to make the choir students in all the choirs feel that we care about them!” said Mrs. Walker.
Mrs. Debra Wells, a Chinese teacher at SJHS, and her first period Chinese class recently made a short film and sent it into the Utah Foreign Language Film Festival (UFLA). Mrs. Wells’s Chinese class usually sends in a poster each year, but this year the UFLA asked schools to submit a short film.
According to Mrs. Wells, before they made the video, she passed out small slips of paper with Harry Potter characters on them. Then the students would stand up and introduce themselves as that character speaking Chinese.
Mrs. Adrienne Murray is the new Foods Exploration, Teen Living, and Service-Learning teacher at Springville Junior High School. On top of that she is also the school’s student council advisor--all during her first year of teaching at SJHS. Not many people know this, but Mrs. Murray did do some student teaching at SJHS last year.
Tanya Garibay, an eight grader at SJHS, said, “Mrs. Murray is always trying to make things fun. She gives us recipe cards and she makes up games so we can learn and have fun at the same time.” According to Tanya, Mrs. Murray has been a good teacher and has taught her a lot of stuff from yummy recipes to how to cook them well.
Mr. David Hansen and Mrs. Lise Carpenter are teachers at Springville Junior High School. They teach normal, everyday stuff, but they also coach the Model UN team. What is Model UN? According to Mr. Hansen, Model UN is a simulation of the United Nations Assembly. Sarah Clark, a ninth grader on the team, said, “Model UN is like a debate team, but students are given countries and they have to argue about their resources and needs.”
The SJHS foods class recently made thanksgiving pies to get into the Thanksgiving spirit. They all worked together to make apple or pumpkin pies. The class spent November 21st learning about how to make the pies, and then the next day they mixed the ingredients together and baked them. Even though it was Thanksgiving, the class listened to Christmas music.
Front row, left to right: Samantha Rasmussen, Clarissa Scott, Sam Hall, Christi Babbitt, Jed Barker, Ali Earnshaw, and Sarah Skinner. Back row, left to right: Allyson Smith, Marynda Chipman, Maria Peralta, Jenni Pizarro, Demmi Nava, Cassidy Bowers, Claire Davis, and Marin Rosenberg.
The Springville Junior High and High School Orchestras are using a program called Smart Music. This program is used for playing test and more. Smart Music allows students to evaluate and listen to the way they play their instrument. Not only does it work for orchestra, but it works for band, choir and more. Students can also tune their instrument and find and play other music during their free time. Also, the instructor, Dr. Samuel Tsugawa, can give assignments through Smart Music.
Freshman boys and girls basketball tryouts were held on November 7th and 8th. The following students made the freshman boys’ basketball team: Britain Patten, Kenyon Jepperson, Tyson Galbraith, Nik Grosland, Sam Graves, Omar Garibay, Brandon Merkley, Skyler Spencer, Tristan Bradley, Andrew Creer, Preston Adams, Ryan Gage, and Coleman Lindquist. The following students made the freshman girls’ basketball team: Annie Anderson, Susie Suazo, Melanie Anderson, Ellis Bennett, Addie Bowers, Anna Bunnell, Sarah Clark, Talauna Davenport, Morgan Fulkerson, Jackie Gurtierrez, Andalyn Hall, Yolandy Leilua, Olivia Money, and Stacy Stapel.
Mrs. Adrienne Murray, the Service Learning teacher at Springville Junior High School, and her service learning walk to Brookside every Friday to work and play with some of the elementary students. Mrs. Murray said, “The service learning class has gone to Brookside on a regular basis. A few of the students have chosen to be in charge of going to the school as their semester service project.”
This year at SJHS, we had two freshmen girls make the Springville High School basketball team. Lexi Moeaki and Lindsay Johnson, ninth grade, both made the junior varsity (JV) and sophomore teams. The teams practice, together, everyday from 3-5 PM, in the G-Wing gym at the high school, with the exception of Saturday practices that are usually in the morning. The JV and sophomore games start December 2nd at home, against Herriman and end the beginning of February. The JV team usually plays at 3:30 and the sophomores usually play at 7:00.
